AI agent adoption is driving increases in opportunities, threats, and IT budgets

While 79% of security leaders believe that AI agents will introduce new security and compliance challenges, 80% say AI agents will introduce new security opportunities.

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Bumblebee Malware Takes Flight via Trojanized VMware Utility

An employee inadvertently downloaded a malicious version of the legitimate RVTools utility, which launched an investigation into an attempted supply chain attack aimed at delivering the recently revived initial-access loader.

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100+ Fake Chrome Extensions Found Hijacking Sessions, Stealing Credentials, Injecting Ads

An unknown threat actor has been attributed to creating several malicious Chrome Browser extensions since February 2024 that masquerade as seemingly benign utilities but incorporate covert functionality to exfiltrate data, receive commands, and execute arbitrary code.
“The actor creates websites that masquerade as legitimate services, productivity tools, ad and media creation or analysis

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Hazy Hawk Attack Spotted Targeting Abandoned Cloud Assets Since 2023

Infoblox reveals Hazy Hawk, a new threat exploiting abandoned cloud resources (S3, Azure) and DNS gaps since Dec…

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‘Hazy Hawk’ Cybercrime Gang Swoops In for Cloud Resources

Since December 2023, the threat group has preyed on domains belonging to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and numerous other reputable organizations worldwide to redirect users to malicious sites.

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Novel Phishing Attack Combines AES With Poisoned npm Packages

Researchers discovered a phishing attack in the wild that takes multiple well-tread technologies like open source packages and AES encryption and combines them.

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NATO-Flagged Vulnerability Tops Latest VMware Security Patch Batch

VMware patches flaws that expose users to data leakage, command execution and denial-of-service attacks. No temporary workarounds available. 

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A security key for every employee? Yubikey-as-a-Service goes global

Yubico’s roaming authenticators can now be provisioned and delivered in 175 countries. Here’s what the service offers.

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South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware

High-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder.
“The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,” Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and Prakas

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AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts.
“These roles, often created automatically or recommended during setup, grant overly broad permissions, such as full S3

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